Apart from the obvious privacy issues, I'm not actually sure what putting DNA in an LLM would actually achieve.
It seems optimistic to imagine that you could query this DNA data in combination with the other information to get meaningful answers.
It seems optimistic to imagine that you could query this DNA data in combination with the other information to get meaningful answers.
The conclusions AI reaches don't even have to be scientifically valid, they could be nothing more than hallucinations, but that doesn't mean that it won't have impacts on your life or place limitations on your opportunities.
I was just thinking out loud what the theoretical benefits could be, if done 'properly' let's say.
Alternatively we could just avoid doing it at all! It's a horrible idea, absolutely.
These models have proven to develop incredible abilities through pattern matching on massive text data, so I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the limits of what they could do.
Having them use specialized tools would probably be more effective (e.g. have the reasoning LLM use the DNA LLM), but in the long term with scale… who knows? The bitter lesson keeps biting us every time we think we know better.